Prof. Julian Ku Quoted in Washington Post on Impact of Taiwan Travel Act on...
Tensions Rise Over Taiwan Strait as U.S. and China Harden Positions By Simon Denyer The Washington Post April 9, 2018 Excerpt: While some experts have played down the [Taiwan Travel] act as “not...
View ArticleProf. Theo Liebmann Successfully Argues Appeal for SIJS Before NY’s Appellate...
Professor Theo Liebmann, director of Clinical Programs and attorney-in-charge of the Youth Advocacy Clinic, successfully argued an appeal before New York’s Appellate Division on March 27. The appeal...
View ArticleProf. Julian Ku Invited to Testify at House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing...
Julian Ku, the Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, has been invited by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to testify at a Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific hearing,...
View ArticleJudge Gail Prudenti, Dean, Publishes Article in Nassau Lawyer on Challenges...
Judge Gail Prudenti, dean and executive director of the Center for Children, Families and the Law, published the article “Square Pegs and Round Holes: Shoehorning Modern Family Dynamics into Antiquated...
View ArticleProf. Fred Klein Quoted in Forward Story on Possible Fallout From Lawyer...
Cohen Used Trump Email For Taxi Business Now Under Scrutiny By Ben Fractenberg The Forward April 16, 2018 Excerpt: Investigators could use the emails as evidence to demand more communications from...
View ArticleProf. Ellen Yaroshefsky to Receive Center for Constitutional Rights Founders...
Ellen Yaroshefsky, the Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics and executive director of the Monroe H. Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics, has been named the 2018...
View ArticleHofstra Law Students Seema Rambaran 3L and Reza Yassi 3L Reach Finals of 2018...
Hofstra Law students Seema Rambaran 3L and Reza Yassi 3L, along with eight other finalists, will compete on April 20 for three top prizes valued at $70,000 in the 2018 Hofstra-Digital Remedy Venture...
View ArticleProf. Ronald Colombo Signs 9th Circuit Amicus Brief on Behalf of the Little...
Professor Ronald J. Colombo joined other legal scholars in signing an amicus brief filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of the Little Sisters of the Poor. The Department of Health...
View ArticleHofstra Law Ranks 5th in New York State for ‘Gold Standard Job’ Placement
Hofstra Law Class of 2017 graduates extended a now six-year trend of improved employment outcomes, with 81% securing a full-time, long-term job for which bar passage is required or a J.D. degree is an...
View ArticleProf. Scott Colesanti Publishes New Book, ‘Fairness Inc.,’ on America’s...
Professor J. Scott Colesanti has published the book Fairness, Inc.: The Origins (and Billion-Dollar Bonuses) of Rule 10b-5 as America’s Insider Trading Prohibition (Carolina Academic Press 2017). The...
View ArticleJudge Gail Prudenti, Dean, to Deliver 2018 Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Lecture
Judge Gail Prudenti, dean and executive director of the Center for Children, Families and the Law, will deliver the 54th Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Lecture at 6 p.m., on Wednesday, May 2, at the...
View ArticleProf. Julian Ku Quoted on Why Korea Summit Is Unlikely to Result in Peace...
65 YEARS ON The Historical Reasons the Korea Summit Can’t End With a Peace Treaty By Steve Mollman Quartz April 24, 2018 Excerpt: A peace treaty ending the war — like the the San Francisco Peace Treaty...
View ArticleUniversity Gala Honors Hofstra Law Alumnus Steven Witkoff ’83 and Teacher of...
The 22nd annual Hofstra University Gala on May 3 is honoring Hofstra Law alumnus Steven Witkoff, B.A. ’80, J.D. ’83, the chairman and CEO of The Witkoff Group and a member of the Hofstra University...
View ArticleProf. Norman Silber’s Article ‘Merchant Authorized Consumer Cash Substitutes’...
Professor Norman Silber’s article “Merchant Authorized Consumer Cash Substitutes” (Hofstra Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-03) recently made the SSRN Top 10 download lists for: • LSN:...
View ArticleAmicus Brief Signed by Prof. Julian Ku Cited in Justice Alito’s Concurring...
In the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Jesner v. Arab Bank, Justice Samuel Alito’s concurring opinion cited an amicus curiae brief signed by Julian Ku, the Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of...
View ArticleHofstra Law Student Seema Rambaran 3L Wins 2nd Place and People’s Choice...
Hofstra Law third-year student Seema Rambaran won Second Place and the People’s Choice award in the 2018 Hofstra-Digital Remedy Venture Challenge for her tech startup Lawdio, a service that provides...
View ArticleAlumna Hester Agudosi ’89 Appointed Chief Diversity Officer of New Jersey by...
On April 20, Gov. Phil Murphy announced the appointment of Hosftra Law alumna Hester H. Agudosi, Esq. ’89 as Chief Diversity Officer of the state of New Jersey. “A commitment to diversity and inclusion...
View ArticleProf. Ronald Colombo Cited and Quoted by US District Judge Jack Weinstein in...
In Zhang Jingrong v. Chinese Anti–Cult World Alliance, Eastern District of New York (April 23, 2018), Judge Jack Weinstein approvingly cited to and quoted from Professor Ronald J. Colombo’s recent...
View ArticleProf. Norman Silber Quoted in FairWarning Story on FTC’s Policy of Not...
Federal Trade Commission Warns Six Companies About Product Warranties By Christopher Jensen FairWarning May 1, 2018 Excerpt: Norman Silber, a professor at Hofstra Law School and research scholar at...
View ArticleProf. Barbara Stark Presents on Intercountry Human Rights at Int’l Society of...
On April 28, Professor Barbara Stark presented the paper “Towards a Theory of Intercountry Human Rights: Global Capitalism and the Rise and Fall of Intercountry Adoption” at the International Society...
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